Category: At CERN
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Yuri Orlov (1924 – 2020)
Yuri Orlov(1924 – 2020) — Yuri Orlov, a world-renowned accelerator physicist and leading figure in the worldwide campaign for human rights in Soviet Russia, passed away at the end of September at the age of 96 years. Yuri was born in Moscow in 1924. He studied and worked there until 1956, when a critical pro-democracy
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Tony Shave (1951 – 2020)
Tony Shave(1951 – 2020) — It is with great sadness that we inform you of the death of Tony Shave, a former member of the CERN personnel, who had recently retired after devoting 42 years of his life to the Organization in the fields of radiation protection and technical support. Originally from Sussex in the
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CERN publishes its first public Environment Report
Prepared according to the Global Reporting Initiative Sustainability Reporting Standards, the first public CERN Environment Report details the current status of CERN’s environmental footprint, along with objectives for the coming years
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Philippe Mermod (1978 – 2020)
Philippe Mermod(1978 – 2020) — It is with great sadness that we inform you that Philippe Mermod, a member of the ATLAS and SHiP collaborations at CERN, passed away on 20 August 2020. Philippe was born in Geneva in 1978 He obtained his Master’s degree in 2002 from the University of Geneva and his PhD
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By protecting yourself, you protect others
Like the rest of the world, CERN is going through challenging times due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, the virus did not vanish during the summer but is still circulating among the global population. In numerous countries, the number of infections is rising again – resulting in renewed constraints on our professional and private lives.
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Horst Wenninger (1938 – 2020)
Former CERN director Horst Wenninger played key roles in the approval of the LHC and in firmly establishing knowledge transfer at CERN
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Claude Détraz (1938 – 2020)
Claude Détraz, a noteworthy figure in nuclear and particle physics in France and Europe, passed away on Saturday, 20 June 2020
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Henri Laporte (1928 – 2020)
Henri Laporte(1928 – 2020) — One of the key figures in the construction of LEP passed away on 18 May 2020. Henri Laporte led the civil-engineering work for the Large Electron-Positron Collider in the 1980s, the biggest construction project for fundamental research ever undertaken and which included the construction of the 27 km tunnel that